Member Since: 6/22/2006
Band Website: TracySilverman.com"TracySilverman.com
Band Members: My band is called Eclectica--it's a 3 piece of myself with Futureman (Roy Wooten) on drums and Kyle Whalum on bass. The CD will be released April 1, 2008 on ArtistShare Records with distribution by Thirty Tigers/Sony Red
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www.tracysilverman.com"The greatest living exponent of the electric violin." --BBC Radio
"...fleet agility and tangy expressivity with wailing hints of Jimi Hendrix." --Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
"Tracy Silverman played as if he believed in every note and there was a whooping standing ovation." --Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
"His deep engagement with the Asian-influenced music coursed through his strong, supple virtuosity." --Hilary Finch, The Times, (London) Tuesday
"A showcase for the startling virtuosity of jazz electric violinist Tracy Silverman." -- Andrew Clements, The Guardian, (London)
"Charismatic" -- Stephen Pettitt, The Evening Standard, (London) Monday, August 23, 2004
"That violin, as Tracy Silverman miraculously plays it, evokes Jimi Hendrix's wailing electric guitar and Ravi Shankar's astral sitar and Silverman, in an inspiring display of dharmic duty, has astonishingly memorized difficult music." --Mark Swed, LA Times, May 27, 2005
"A winsome fellow with Kenny G curls and an endearingly blissed-out air, soloist Tracy Silverman drew from his souped-up fiddle ecstatic shrieks, soulful growls, and swoops and slides of phosphorescent radiance." --Marion Lignana Rosenberg, Newsday, June 8, 2005
Silverman walks around the stage, breaking the box classical cats stand in. Finally he reaches up way high and we get a big moment. Silverman turns a circle. The music gets louder and louder. The violin rushes to the stratosphere. We get arpeggios and flying fingers. We've taken off. Adams turns on the electricity and lets Silverman blow above the orchestra playing full blast. With a rush and a flourish it's over. The audience loves it. So do I. It's his best piece in years." --David Salvage Sequenza21, June 6, 2005
"Tracy Silverman wove an endless freewheeling melody that at times resembled a Jimi Hendrix solo." --Alex Ross, The New Yorker Magazine
"the Adams work also is a concerto tailored to the special talents of Tracy Silverman, he of the wild curls and even wilder electric violin." --John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
"Tracy Silverman, the soloist who belongs among the inspirers, plays a six-string electronic violin. 'I planned Dharma as a piece about ambiance,' says Adams, 'and then in addition it became a violin concerto. That happened when I discovered the phenomenal Tracy Silverman, who will play the solo part on his six-string electric violin.'" --Alan Rich, LA Weekly
"'Trip to the Sun' may be the most adventurous Windham Hill album ever." --John Diliburto, Billboard
"Silverman is stretching out in yet another direction, in a harder rock direction, with stops in classical, jazz and electronica" --Philadelphia Inquirer